away

Definitions

adjaway(of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter"the pitch was away (or wide)","an outside pitch"

adjawayused of an opponent's ground"an away game"

adjawaynot present; having left"he's away right now","you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"

advawayfrom a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)"ran away from the lion","wanted to get away from there","sent the children away to boarding school","the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal","went off to school","they drove off","go forth and preach"

advawayfrom one's possession"he gave out money to the poor","gave away the tickets"

advawayin reserve; not for immediate use"started setting aside money to buy a car","put something by for her old age","has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"

advawayout of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)"brush the objections aside","pushed all doubts away"

advawayout of existence"the music faded away","tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder","idled the hours away","her fingernails were worn away"

advawayindicating continuing action; continuously or steadily"he worked away at the project for more than a year","the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"

awayFrom this or that direction; in another or the other direction: as, turn your eyes away; he turned away.

awayAt or to such a distance; distant; off: as, the village is six miles away.

awayFrom one state or condition to another; out of existence; to an end; to nothing: as, to pass, wear, waste, fade, pine, or die away; continual dropping wears away stone; the image soon faded away; the wind died away at sunset; she pined away with consumption.

interjAwaybegone!—Away (elliptically), to go away, esp. imperatively, Away! or Away with you!—Away with him = take him away

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Quotations

William Faulkner

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

Indian Proverb

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

Sting

“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”

Thomas Carlyle

“The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

William Wordsworth

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”

Idioms

An apple a day keeps the doctor away - Eating healthy food keeps you healthy.

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Away with the fairies - If someone is away with the fairies, they don't face reality and have unrealistic expectations of life.

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Blow the cobwebs away - If you blow the cobwebs away, you make sweeping changes to something to bring fresh views and ideas in.

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Fire away - If you want to ask someone a question and they tell you to fire away, they mean that you are free to ask what you want.

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Get away scot-free - If someone gets away scot-free, they are not punished when they have done something wrong. ('Get off scot-free' is an alternative.)

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Get away with murder - If you get away with murder, you do something bad and don't get caught or punished.('Get away with blue murder' is also used.)

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Give away the store - (USA) If someone gives away the store, they say or do something that makes their position in negotiations, debates, etc, much weaker.

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Kick away the ladder - If someone kicks away the ladder, they remove something that was supporting or helping someone.

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Squared away - Being prepared or ready for business or tasks at hand. Having the proper knowledge, skill and equipment to handle your assignment or station. 'He is a great addition to the squad; he is squared away.'

While the cat's away, the mouse will play - People whose behaviour is strictly controlled go over the top when the authority is not around, which is why most teenagers have parties when their parents have gone on holiday. The parents are the scary authority figures, but the cat's away and the kids are the mice partying and enjoying their freedom.

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Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

AS. aweg, anweg, onweg,; on, on + weg, way

Usage

In literature:

He has come away to forget her, you know.

"Blow The Man Down" by Holman Day

They threw away their combustibles, and fled.

"The Three Midshipmen" by W.H.G. Kingston

He had never kissed me since the summer before he went away to college.

Anthony Curtis, publisher of Las Vegas Advisor, an industry newsletter, said many professional gamblers hang onto high-value chips and stash them away as a means to stay off the books, away from the IRS.

In science:

Because UGC 12695 was thought to be fairly isolated, with the nearest galaxy (UGC 12687) lying more than 277 kpc away (Figure 1), it provides a good opportunity for studying star formation and evolution in LSB galaxies.

The extension of the AdS/CFT correspondence to theories away from their conformal limit leads naturally to the issue of giving a dual description of RG ﬂows.

AdS/CFT Correspondence and Type 0 String Theory

D(µ) = γ0 (∂0 + µ) + R, the µ-dependence of the fermion determinant can be gauged away by means of a time-dependent gauge transformation, i.e.

Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD

In terms of the effective partition function, the saddle point rotates away from U = 1, leading to a nonvanishing diquark condensate.

Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD

The bright z = 1.305 QSO only 12′ away from the HDF raises the northern HDF to nearly the same status as the HDF-S, which was selected to be proximate to a bright QSO.

QSOs and Absorption Line Systems Surrounding the Hubble Deep Field

The B and R band measurements in each set are not signiﬁcantly different, however, our measured U magnitudes are brighter on average by 0.13 mag, which is about 4 standard errors of the mean away from no difference in the U measurements.

QSOs and Absorption Line Systems Surrounding the Hubble Deep Field

It is thus clear that for a given class of set created by a speciﬁc rule, when Df (m) decreases it means that it is increasingly moving away from d and hence more and more members from the full set are removed.

Formation of a New Class of Random Fractals in Fragmentation with Mass Loss

Some of the neighbors are connected to j (say 2k − r) and r are connected to the far away sites.

Random spread on the family of small-world networks

Thus if the convection zone shrank at ﬁxed Hb, it would not change its spin frequency because the angular momentum taken away by the decoupled ﬂuid exactly ca ncels the change in the moment of inertia due to the change in x.

Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts

This tail of the molecule extends outward away from the microtubule and into the cytoplasm and has been described by Sackett .